Lamp holdee for automobile hoods



Feb. 5 1924. 1,432,44-

H. W. BATQHELLEIR LAMPHOLDER FOR AUTOMOBILE HOQDS Filed Nov. 28 1922' PM Feb. 5, 1924.

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LAMP HOLDEE FOB AUTOMOBILE HOODS.

Application filed November at, 1922. sex-1211110. 623,776.

To all whom it may concern:

and to separably and adjustably engage the usual intle rod which extends centrally along t e top portion of the hood from front to rear, above the engine, thehood sections being hinged to this rod. There is sufficient space between the pintle and the engine to contain a lamp supported by the pintle,-.in position to illuminate the engine.

My improved holder enab es the lamp to be connected with the intle with the-axis of the lamp substantizsly at right angles with the pintle, and either in a vertical po sition directly under the pintle, or inclined toward either side of the hood, the attachment being adjustable len hwise of the giggle, toward and from eit er end of the pmtle forms an element .of a hin Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,-

Figures 1 and 2 are side elevations, showing a holder embodying the invention, and a portion of the pintle rod, the latter being shown in side elevation by Figurel, and in transverse section by Figure 2.,

Fi re 3 shows in erspective the holder mem ers shown by lgures l and 2, separated from each other.

Figure 1 shows the lamp partly in section, and partly in elevation, separated from the holder. Y

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, 12 represents a portion.

of the usual cylindrical pintle rod in the upper portion of an automobile hood. The

connection between the fixed and movab parts of the hood and is. spaced above the engine, a considerable portion of its periphery being unobstructed, so that the holder hereinafter described is adaptedto slide upon the pintle toward either end of the hood.

My improved holder is adapted for use with an incandescent electric lamp, of which 13 is the bulb, the lamp having a shank 1d,

coaxial with the bulb, the holder being adapted for frictional engagement both with. the pintle 12 and the shankdt, and to hold the lamp with its axis substantially at right angles with the intle.

The holder inc udes two members 15', preferably pressed from sheet or plate metal. Said members include lower clamping jaws 16, formed to embrace and frictionally gras the shank 14, upper. clamping jaws 17, formed to frictionall grasp the pintle 12, and necks 15, connecting the said jaws. The holder also includes clamping means such as headed bolts 18, inserted in perforated I ears 19 at opposite ends of the lower jaws,

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and provided with nuts 20, for exerting clamping pressure on the lower jaws, and

means such as a headed bolt 21, inserted in orifices formed in the neck 15, and prov1ded w1th a win I nut 23, for exerting clamp ng pressure t ough the necks on'the upper jaws. The orifice 22 in one of the necks 15, is preferably square, as shown by Figure 3, and receives a squared ortion of the bolt 21, to prevent the latter om turn- The grasping faces of the upper jaws 17 are formed to extend parallel with the axis of the pintle, and to bear on opposite sides thereof. The grasping faces of the lower jaws 16 extend at right angles with the grasping faces of the upper jaws, so that the axis of the lamp is maintained at right angles with the axis of the pintle.

he upper jaws 17, when released from clampin pressure, are adapted to slide lengthwise of the pintle, so that the holder may be adjusted toward either end of the hood, as indicated by full and dotted lines in Figure 1. Said jaws are also adapted to turn on the pintle, and cause the axis of the lam to stand either vertically under the pint e, as shown by full lines 1n Figure 2, or at an inclination, as shown by dotted lines. When the nut 23 is tightened, the up 1' er jaws firmly engage the pintle, and we thelaln in any position to which it may be adjuste illuminating practically an part of an engine located under the pint e 12. Owm to the fact that the lower jaws 16 exten at right angles with the upper 'aws 17, the holder is permitted to swing on y in a plane at right angles with the pintle, and leprevented from swin 'ng in any other direction, so that the lamp is firmly supported in each Provision'is therefore made for lllltl of the positions to which it may be adjusted, by a holder composed of two one-piece members and clamping means connecting said members. Y

' The lamp preferably includes a reflector 25, and the preferred lamp structure is as shown by Figure 4, the s a tube integral with or fixed to the reflector. The shank, therefore, constitutes a socket with which the base or neck 13" to which the bulb is attached, may be detachably connected by well known means, such as the bayonet-yaoint connection shown by dotted lines in igure. The tubular shank constitutes also a holder in which the usual insulating plug 26 is fixed, said plug having sockets 27 for the usual conducting wires, and binding screws 28, to confine said wires.

I claim:

A lamp holder of the character referred to comprising two similar members each shaped at one end to form meet a pair of 7 nk 14 being aare in operative relation said curved sections will closelyembrace the shank of an electric lamp and the cars will reject radially outward therefrom at su tantially diametrically opposite points, means connectin the ears on the members to retain them 1n engagement with the shank of a lamp, and means connecting the members and adapted to draw the complemental jaws into en agement with a suitable support and retain t em in such relation for the purpose described. Y I r In testimony whereof I- have afiixed my signature.

HUGH W. BATCHELLER. 

